Jan. 24, 2019 - Since
completing two terms as governor of Colorado on
Jan. 8,
John Hickenlooper has ramped up consideration of a possible
presidential run, working through his Giddy Up PAC. Before his
tenure
as governor, Hickenlooper served two terms as mayor of Denver, from
Jan. 2003-Jan. 2011. Hickenlooper said, "I'm not, I'm not quite
to that point of announcing I'm going to run for
president of this country, but I do think that being, having been a
mayor provides wonderful training and experience of finding ways to
bring people together and achieving progressive goals and
accomplishments through that unity." As an example, Hickenlooper
said, "We got all 34 mayors in metropolitan Denver in 2004 to
unanimously
support a significant tax increase to build 122 miles of new light rail
track. That unity allowed us to build what they call fast tracks,
and
that investment not only attracted millennials to our city, who are
entrepreneurs and job creators, but it also allowed the community to
begin to work together." He also described an example from his time as
governor, where he worked to bring oil and gas industry and the
environmental community together to institute methane
regulations. "It was like having the Hatfields and the McCoys,"
Hickenlooper said. "The only way you persuade anyone of anything
is to listen to them harder," he said. transcript
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